"I promise that I will do my best: to be true to myself and develop my beliefs." What if they're perverse and antisocial beliefs?

First, define "perverse and antisocial".

Second, the guidance of adults and peers in a child's life is usually adequate for most kids to learn the mores of their society. The truly disfunctional (habitual criminals, sociopaths and psychopaths) are a decided minority.

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Live a good life... If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.--Marcus Aurelius

"I promise that I will do my best: to be true to myself and develop my beliefs." What if they're perverse and antisocial beliefs?

First, define "perverse and antisocial".

Second, the guidance of adults and peers in a child's life is usually adequate for most kids to learn the mores of their society. The truly disfunctional (habitual criminals, sociopaths and psychopaths) are a decided minority.

Well, let's use your words to help define my terms. What if she believes in criminal, sociopathic, and psychopathic acts? It's a silly and useless oath. Well, that part of it is. Reminds me of when my commencement speaker encouraged us to follow our dreams, as if all dreams are good and worthwhile pursuits. Bland platitudes.

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"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved" - Acts 16:31 (NKJV)

"A page of history is worth a volume of logic." Oliver Wendell Holmes, New York Trust Co. v. Eisner, 256 U.S. 345, 349 (1921)

Well, let's use your words to help define my terms. What if she believes in criminal, sociopathic, and psychopathic acts?

To restate what I said, most people are not dysfunctional to the point where their beliefs are so far from the norm. Those who truly are usually end up dead or institutionalized. Our theoretical criminal sociopathic psychotic is not likely to go undetected and unchecked for long. On the whole, human society manages to function and even prosper despite its parasites and exploiters.

It's a silly and useless oath. Well, that part of it is. Reminds me of when my commencement speaker encouraged us to follow our dreams, as if all dreams are good and worthwhile pursuits. Bland platitudes.

Being inclusive often lends itself to a degree of blandness, true. What inspires someone may make the person next to them yawn. Why not look on such platitudes as simply a starting point?

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Live a good life... If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.--Marcus Aurelius

If the girls instead swore an oath to obey god, what would that mean? Which god? Christian? OT or NT? Hindu? Xenu? Thor? And to obey which parts of what that god said?

Besides, saying something does not mean a person believes it. Like every psychopath who swore to tell the truth on a bible really told the truth? "I swear I did not kill, chop up and eat that family. But they were tasty."

Why do religious people think that having religion around makes people good?

In reading through the comments that follow the article link, the biggest beef locally seems to be concerning service to to queen. I may be jaded but I see a lot less malice and personal attacking in their comments than comments I see in American counterparts.

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It doesn't make sense to let go of something you've had for so long. But it also doesn't make sense to hold on when there's actually nothing there.